{"id":826,"date":"2026-05-12T14:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grants.ulbsibiu.ro\/corecon\/?p=826"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:15:43","slug":"corecon-based-scientific-event-representing-the-russian-ukrainian-conflict-in-the-media-insights-from-the-international-project-corecon-2024-2026-during-the-open-linguistic-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grants.ulbsibiu.ro\/corecon\/corecon-based-scientific-event-representing-the-russian-ukrainian-conflict-in-the-media-insights-from-the-international-project-corecon-2024-2026-during-the-open-linguistic-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"CORECON-based scientific event \u201cRepresenting the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the media: Insights from the international project CORECON 2024-2026\u201d during the Open Linguistic Seminar at the University of Opole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The event was organized on May 7, 2026 and brought over 80 attendees \u2013 faculty members, doctoral candidates and students \u2013 together with CORECON researchers to discuss selected project results and ensure that materials created in the project are applicable in other contexts, be they research-, impact- or education-oriented.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Context and rationale<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Linguistic Seminar (OLS) is a monthly session for academic teachers, researchers, doctoral candidates and students at the Faculty of Philology of UO, where linguists present their work in progress, disseminate the results of completed studies, seek feedback or advice from other experts, or discuss the pathways to impact of their publications. The May 2026 OLS session was taken by the CORECON team because it coincided with the project book launch and finalization of some important milestones. It was also a unique occasion to publicize the outputs particularly related to how the Russian\u2013Ukrainian conflict is represented in the Polish media and through the Polish language. Given the specific demographics context of the philological and social science departments at UO, some of the participants were Ukrainian or international students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Project presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first hour of the seminar was devoted to explaining the roots and motivations behind the project<\/strong>, as well as its two dominant perspectives \u2013 linguistics and journalism studies, as well as CORECON\u2019s main outputs (Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska). This was followed by an introduction to CORECON corpus building<\/strong> and the presentation of the potential of media corpora to trace journalistic practices (J\u0119drzej Olejniczak). The project\u2019s main events<\/strong>, which are captured in previous blogposts, e.g. <\/mark>here<\/mark><\/a>, <\/mark>here<\/mark><\/a> and here<\/mark><\/a>, were mentioned for their role in the dissemination and application of results, and as an inspiration for the development of education-oriented activities (Przemys\u0142aw Wilk; Marcin Deutschmann).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As is often the case with international research projects of this scope, CORECON has been an enormous opportunity for mutual learning<\/strong> or competence training, especially for early-stage researchers, who could experience international-scale project team work and collaboration. In addition, it is important to keep up its visibility<\/strong> not only through open access publications, but also through popularization or social media alerts (Robert Radziej), with blog posts, such as this one, being a running record of project milestones useful for sharing information with other researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book launch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The OLS was an opportunity to present the newly published CORECON collective monograph, edited by Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and Simina-Maria Terian entitled Mediated Discourses of Conflict across Languages and Genres: Coverage and Reception of the War in Ukraine <\/em><\/strong>that came out in April 2026 in the Springer\u2019s book series \u201cThe Language of Politics.\u201d The book is open access and is available on the publisher\u2019s website<\/mark><\/a>, together with descriptions, bios of the authors and endorsements. The monograph<\/strong>\u2019s unique value lies in bringing varied qualitative and quantitative methods of discourse studies, corpus studies, media studies, and cultural studies together to match specific research problems or test a hypothesis. Each chapter presents a selected historical, social, and communicational context of the inquiry into the Russian-Ukrainian conflict coverage or reception with specific angles, definitions, orientations, and framings of the CORECON-related data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apart from the collective volume, the seminar gave space for discussing the conclusions of selected studies that were published in such highly-recognized peer-reviewed journals as Media, War and Conflict<\/em> (Sage Publications), Journalism Studies<\/em> (Routledge), English Text Construction<\/em> (John Benjamins), Revista Transilvania<\/em> (ASTRA National Museum, Sibiu County Council, Romania), or Res Rhetorica<\/em> (Polish Rhetoric Society). The full list of the project results is available on the Results page.<\/mark><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation of recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second hour of the OLS was devoted to sharing the main areas of how the published or prepared studies could be used to extract recommendations for journalistic best practices (Rafa\u0142 K. Matusiak) and to trace how international armed conflict should be covered in the media so that the members of the public can take reasonable stances and make informed citizen choices about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This part of the presentation was especially useful to UO students from various programs of studies \u2013 from applied linguistics and public communication, through design and social communication, journalism and PR, to political science and diplomacy. Some noteworthy aspects that were raised during the presentation concerned, among others:<\/p>\n\n\n\n